In August 2005 Jim Sutton, the associate minister for rural affairs, announced the formation of a new Walking Access Consultation Panel. The panel 'would engage in consultations to reach general agreement on what measures could be implemented to improve access to the publicly-owned resources of water and fish'.
One of the areas that the panel will be considering will be the mapping issues involved in walking access to the New Zealand countryside. 'Maps for the People' looks at those mapping issues.
September 2005, revised November 2005.
Maps for the People: The Mapping Issues of Walking Access
in the New Zealand Outdoors (422 KB, twenty-six A4 pages).
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The current national series of paper 1:50,000 topographic maps is the Topographic Map 260 series, published by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) for the New Zealand government. There are nearly 300 sheets.
LINZ is planning a new paper-based 1:50,000 topographic map series, to be introduced in 2008-9.